To wonder why the Press aren't banging on about the age difference between George and Amal?

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looking at these pictures he could be her dad but are the Press banging on about the 16 year age difference? Er no. You don't think it's because he's a man, do you? If a woman of 53 was marrying a 36 year old man, she'd be labelled a cougar and he'd be a toyboy but Amal isn't being called a toy girl!

Denise Welch was married to Tim Healy from Auf Wiedersehen, Pet but they got divorced and she's now married to some younger fella. Is he called Lincoln?

Has George got married yet? The age gap is the least surprising thing about that arrangement.

You want more pointless shite in the press? YABU

some other bloke before the new husband she was with who used to be gay

You mean she converted him with her womanly powers? That must be why George is interested.

George has been going out with younger women for years though... Perhaps that's why it's unremarkable.

Catherine Zeta Jones is 9 years older tha. Michael Douglas's eldest child.

Courtney Cox is 12 years older than her Bf (fiancé?) - plenty of toyboy headlines there, Bradley Cooper is 17 years older than his Gf BUT I just googled "Bradley cooper suki Waterhouse sugar daddy" and I found one reference to all three, on "earnthenecklace.com", result!

I don't think 16 years is a huge difference (though I can see it being a problem as the couple get older: a 55 year old woman with a 71 yo man). It's the double standards that irks me slightly. Grey haired, lined 52 yo woman marrying younger man would be ridiculed in the press.

However, I hope they let us have a look at the wedding pics as she will be a ravishing bride

Fossil - Michael Douglas and CZJ have reconciled!

I thought this thread was about George Galloway until half way down

They reconciled? oh. I had felt happy for czj that she'd got out of that situation. He looks like an old man now. Obviously.

Sorry for confusion, Dinah - I'm on first names terms with many Hollywood A listers

Why did you feel happy she got put? I thought they were madly in love and it was just a blip.

I didn't think there was anything sinister about it

Looking at the photos, I would not have even thought there was an age difference. They look like a happy couple.

I have been in a relationship with a man 17 years older than me and one with a man 14 years younger than me. With the older man nobody really said anything, with the younger one I did get a few negative comments but the thing was that they were all from women. However because he was gorgeous, really sexy and was in a band I put it down to jealousy (really not a stealth boast it was just that I never quite understood what he saw in me). Apart from the woman who congratulated me on my 'very talented son' . That one stung!

Ouch Piper

I think George looks older than 52 and much older than his bride to be.

I think he looks about right for his age and she has that classical modest dress sense that makes her look older. I hope it works for them. They've only known each other five minutes. It's all abit rushed .

Cate- I can see it being a problem as the couple get older: a 55 year old woman with a 71 yo man
This is me in 1982 (aged 25) with my 71 year old dad and 55 year old mum. What problem do you see here? (Apart from my slightly tragic fashion sense!)

Awww sweet family photo.

This George still has lead in his pencil. :o

Good for them!

Gosh RustyDalek, to think your mum in that photo is younger than Madonna is now!

She's younger in that photo than I am now....

Your parents look the same age! I'm not saying it would be a problem for every couple but for a woman in middle age married to an old man, I can see a lot of problems!

Its George Clooney though. I would so bang him until he didn't know what day of the week it was

Martina Navratilova's fiancée is 15 years younger. Meh.